Happy New Year from all of us at Riley Maintenance Systems!
Author: Kevin Wilcox
A USA Today investigation was released today in their newspaper and website shows that the very dangerous MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria has been expanding into communities very quickly. The antibiotic resistant bacteria was mainly found in hospitals and other health care facilities, but is now spreading and being found in many other facilities. One such area is NFL locker rooms, as three players on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were found to have the potentially deadly staph infection.
MRSA can also strike hard during flu season, which we have approached here in these winter months. Careful cleaning and disinfecting with the correct chemicals, allowing proper dwell time, can greatly decrease the chances of a MRSA outbreak at a given facility.
If you have any questions about disinfectants that kill this bacteria, please contact a Riley Maintenance Systems representative. We have some very effective chemicals that will eliminate this bacteria if used properly and would be happy to stop over to your facility to demonstrate.
Here is a PowerPoint presentation (as a .pdf) about the Triple S ice melt offerings at RMS. Included in this PowerPoint are the spread rates for each individual type of ice melt. This is helpful in determining which type of ice melt is correct for your application.
SSS Ice Melt Spread Rate PowerPoint
Please contact an RMS representative if you have any questions about ice melt!
With all the recent bedbug problems that facilities have been facing, it was refreshing to see that Triple S has a “green” product that kills bedbugs, cockroaches and other insects with an exoskeleton on instant contact!
Here is some information about the product from the Triple S website:
- Safely Kills and Repels Bed Bugs
- A Green, Non-Toxic Formulation
- Safe for Use Around the Entire Family – Including Pets
- FDA GRAS, EPA FIFRA 25(b) Approved
- Can Be Used Directly on Beds and Linens
- Sprayable On Just About Everything
Here is a link to the spec sheet on Stop Bugging Me!
Please ask an RMS representative to show you this product today! This is a very unique and interesting product, as there are not many environmentally friendly and natural ways of eliminating these difficult pests.
After speaking with people that have been having issues with their urinals, mainly that they aren’t being flushed, I wanted to post a little information on here about Betco’s Smart Restroom System.
Here is a video with some media coverage of this system:
By converting your existing urinal into a water free urinal, you can potentially save millions of gallons of water per year, depending on the usage. Betco has some testimonials at a couple of school districts, which can be seen here:
Here is the Betco brochure on this product. Ask an RMS representative about the Smart Restroom System today!
Well, our physical inventory is over and we hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
Here is an interesting article from Cleaning and Maintenance Magazine about optimizing your facility’s cleaning operations to reduce your labor costs. Labor is the most expensive aspect of cleaning and when the correct products are used for certain applications, it can make these jobs easier to complete and allows employees to be more productive with their time. Take a minute and check out the article. The author makes some very good points and easy recommendations that will increase productivity.
Well, it’s that time of the year for RMS – physical inventory! It sounds like we’re excited… but we’re not. Actually, not at all. As a result, unfortunately, RMS will be closed from 11/27-11/29 so that we can count for a few days.
It’s a necessary evil, but thankfully, it only takes us a couple of days. Some places take a week or more! But, during this time, if you need to talk to any of us, please give us a call on our cell phones – we will have them with us and will be very thankful for an interruption!
Recently, the paper industry has faced some difficult issues based on the legitimacy of measurements on their product specifications. Here’s an article from Tissue World Magazine by Jon Thomson of von Drehle Corporation, questioning whether the paper industry is going “the way of the 2-by-4.” It is now common knowledge that a piece of lumber specified as a 2-by-4 is really not measured as 2 inches by 4 inches. The same goes for a half gallon of ice cream, was well as many other products on the market.
There have been many other articles on this topic, including one from CleanLink’s Sanitary Maintenance magazine. Here’s another article from their two part series on this, called “Defining Cheater Paper.” Some “bargain” paper manufacturers are moving toward this practice, which is very unfair to the customer. If a product is specified to be a certain size, the product that you are receiving should be just that. To find out whether or not the product is what it was specified, one can weigh the case or single roll and compare and contrast the measurement with different cases or rolls of paper. Weight cannot be faked!
Von Drehle Corporaton works with Riley Maintenance Systems to make sure that our clients know exactly what they are receiving when they order paper products from us. If you have any questions about this topic, please contact a sales representative to explain more about this.
Backpack vacuums are one of the most efficient tools that one can have to clean their facility. CleanLink recently put out an article that you can read with more information about backpack vacuums: Increase Cleaning Efficiency with Backpack Vacuums
Ask us about ProTeam or Triple S backpack vacuums today!
Betco has come out with a new addition to their FastDraw line: the FastDraw Pro. This locked dispenser is perfect for large areas that use many different chemicals in their facility. Ask an RMS representative about the FastDraw Pro today!
